Ghostly Publishing - Experience Magic
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We currently have two finalists in The People's Book Prize, and we'd like you to vote for both. there's only a few days of voting left, so please pick your favourite and get everyone you know to have their say.
Ghostly Publishing is an independent publishing company with bases in Plymouth and Edinburgh, specialising in fantasy and science fiction for children up to and including the age of 17. Since our creation in 2011, we have steadily grown the number of children's authors and children's fantasy books we publish.
To find out more about Ghostly Publishing, please read The Ghostly Publishing Story.
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Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize.
When Lance Corporal Archie Fletcher's plane plummets into the Persian Gulf during the Second Gulf War, even his wild imagination could never have primed him for the adventure he must now undertake. With guardian angels, a cursed centaur and mythical saints, Archie battles his way through a feral land called 'Transit'. But 'Dead Game is no easy feat. The fantasy will sweep you away to a parallel world where you will follow Archie's fateful story full of courageous imagination - confirming that knowing deep within us all that the adventure of life must go on.
Qea (Pronounced Kee-ah) is a girl with an unusual history. She comes from a distant galaxy where warlords rule the law and corruption is rife, so she must become hard to survive, but here on earth a young man will change her heart and risk her life, changing it forever.
All teenage girls keep secrets and Kerry Johnston is no exception. More than anyone else she knows how to lie, for ‘Kerry’ is an alias and her life is a nightmare of secrecy, violence and fear. In reality this overweight, limping teenage girl is Qea, a Forbidden child from the Qarntaz Octad, sent to Earth to hide from the warlord she has betrayed. Born third into her family in...
Many centuries ago the Elders designed the world we live in, but they knew that through time and the advances in medicine and technology, the world would slowly start to die and man would ultimately destroy the planet. The Elders created a prophecy that every two millennia, four children would receive a mystical mark. The children would grow and (one day) be powerful enough to release the mighty beast, Tyranacus. Together they would purge the world of man, allowing it to heal before the life cycle would start again.
Margaret Threepwood was a gentle and loving wife and was due to give birth when tragedy struck and Margaret fell severely ill. The Gatekeeper of life and death appeared in...
“Far beneath the ocean waves
And in the underwater caves
Exciting news was spreading fast:
‘The Great Reef Race is here at last!”
When Eel and Ock join a host of other memorable sea-creatures in a thrilling, madcap, splash to the finish line, they soon discover that friendship, fair play and having fun are sometimes more important than winning.
Join in the fun as they wriggle, jiggle and giggle their way from page to fun-filled page - like only an Eel and an Octopus can!
Leyland Perree, author of the Toad Road Code and Stuart McGhee of Rockhoppas fame join forces in The Great Reef Race. It's a brilliant new picture book, exclusive to Ghostly Publishing.
When Bethany moves to Windy Falls and into a new house, she doesn't know anything about the weird woman who once lived there or the mysterious cloud that hangs over the gloomy village.
Bethany finds a witch in a magical kitchen who teaches her how to cast spells of her own, but is Mrs Etherington-Strange everything she appears to be?
